Wednesday, August 04, 2004
With so little happening at work right now, my mind has been pretty free to wander aimlessly during the past few days. Not the semi-outdoor cat sort of wandering where it returns home on schedule, either. Usually I manage to pull it all back together and wipe the drool off my chin before heading home at the end of the workday, but this week, THIS WEEK my mind seems to have gone on a one-way trip. It is the old-folks-escaping-from-the-nursing-home-and-hopping-a-bus-to-nowhere variety of aimless wandering, the kind where you wonder if a search party will have to be called out.
A Few Signs That Having Nothing To Do At Work Is Taking a Very Bad Toll On Me:
1) Yesterday evening as I was backing my car out of my parents' driveway - which is on a pretty significant incline - the brakes were barely responsive. I threw the car into park, yanked the baby out of her carseat and went running back to my parents' house. Naturally, I then began mentally ticking off a list of people who would possibly cut my brakes, because, ya know, it had to be *somebody's* fault that my brakes weren't working. While I was being panicked and paranoid and watching my dad test the brakes in my car, I had the "Eureka" moment that - hey! - the engine was running while my dad was driving, which was not the case when I was behind the wheel just minutes before that. Turns out that I had put the keys in the ignition, but forgot to actually start the car.
2) I've been going to the grocery store fairly frequently during my lunch breaks. It frees up time in the evenings and helps satisfy my daily baked good requirement, which has recently reached a terrifying level. Pretty much count on someone getting hurt if I don't get a cookie with every meal and ice cream before bedtime. Earlier this week - while in the grocery store, mind you - I decided that this desserts obsession is seriously unhealthy and needs to change. I was in the process of pondering a new reduced-sugar diet on the drive back to work when I realized that I had just absentmindedly gobbled halfway through a fresh bag of Pepperidge Farm cookies. Oops.
3) Lately I've been having recurring dreams that I've forgotten to do an assignment for grad school. I actually wake in a panic and start scrambling to get it together in time for class when I remember that I've already graduated. Nearly five years ago, in fact.
Clearly, my brain seems to have left the building. It might be sitting in someone else's parked car somewhere at this very moment. Please let me know if you spot it.
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